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Here’s my story. From the age of 17 through my 45th birthday I literally spent tens of thousands of dollars of my hard earned money trying to GAIN weight. And, Yes….most women wanted to slap me into next week when I explained my skinny struggles to them. They had little if any sympathy for me. I’d easily spend from $3,000 to $4,000, not to mention forcing myself to eat from 7 to 9 times per day, just to gain 10 or 12 lbs while working out over a 6 to 9 month period. It was brutal! I few times I remember forcing myself to eat so much or drink so much (in the form of protein shakes, not alcohol) that I puked!

Once upon a time, back in 1992, when I was a Logan College of Chiropractic student and a total gym rat, I did look like this though…

Dr Todd 1992 Back Pose Bodybuilder

When I turned 45 1/2 though, everything changed. My fast metabolism slowed down considerably. I could just look at a pie or a cupcake and gain belly fat out of the ordeal. My size 28″ waist (as pictured above) become a 30″ then a 32″.

Fast forward to the Spring of 2016 when I outgrew all 14 pairs of size 32″ slacks that were hanging in my closet. I went out and bought 2 pairs of 34″ dress pants just to hold me over until I lost the weight. The only problem is that I never did. Then in April 2017 I could barely button either pair of size 34″ waist pants either. I had started eating like shit several months before. And I hadn’t exercised since I accidentally tore one of my rotator cuff muscles at the gym in the Spring of 2016 by doing 20 chin-ups per workouts. That was a painful experience! Thankfully between my Chiropractor and my Biomat it did heal up 100% though.

Now in April 2017 it was decision time. Go out and buy some 36″ waist size pants or lose 15 lbs of belly fat and get back into my whole wardrobe full of 32s. My wife Eugena had done the ChiroThin Program successfully twice back in 2016, losing 26 lbs the first time through and another 26 lbs the second time! We talked and decided to go on the #ChiroThin Doctor Supervised Weight Loss Program together starting the 1st weekend of May 2017. Admittedly, 95% of our patients who have done ChiroThin have set out to drop 20 to 40 lbs while doing so.

This was only the 3rd time in my life that I’d attempted to lose weight. It was by far the quickest, most affordable and easiest to stick too. In the meantime, this is how I looked when I was losing the Battle of the Bulge with my 34s and opted to begin ChiroThin…

Dr Todd Austin ChiroThin before pics

Yes, I know. Not a pretty sight. TY for not laughing at my “Before pics”. They are a tad bit embarrassing. As a Chiropractic Physician and a former Bodybuilder I should know better. I guess human nature took over. I’m definitely not a fan of the muffintop, especially when it belongs to me.

Actually it only took me 17 days to reach my goal weight of 150 lbs on ChiroThin! Yep. That’s a weight loss of 15 lbs in 17 days!!!
{The last time I opted to lose weight was nearly 2 years ago when I also needed to drop 15 lbs. This was before Eugena and I knew about ChiroThin. I used a different diet. I lost all 15 lbs successfully and kept it off for 6+ months… but it took my 13 weeks to lose it. I’m sure you’d agree that in this “I want it and I want it now!” society of America in 2017 that 17 days is way, way, way quicker than 13 weeks.}

After my 20th day on ChiroThin I started working out 4 times per week and have been doing so for 3 weeks as of today. Here are my 6 week “After” ChiroThin pics that I took yesterday…

#DrTodd Austin After ChiroThin photos 2017

Although I still have lots of work to put in if I ever want to look like I did as a young buck in the early 1990s, ChiroThin definitely has me pointed in the right direction! The other cool thing is that now I have 16 pair of dress pants that fit me once again! Woot woot!!!

Oh, and my beautiful wife Eugena lost 32.2 lbs in her 6 weeks on ChiroThin this time around. Gena lost a total of 15 1/2 inches too! You go, girl!

For more info on ChiroThin or to schedule your free ChiroThin Doctor Supervised Weight Loss Program consultation with us, just call our clinic in Virden (Northern Macoupin County) at 217-965-3100 or email me at draustin@royell.net .

Here at Austin Family Chiropractic in Virden, IL (Northern Macoupin County) we (my wife Eugena aka Gluten Free Gena and I) have been offering the #ChiroThin Doctor Assisted Weight Loss Program for approximately 6 months now and we’ve seen some downright amazing results!

Our last 2 patients who just completed the program lost 23.5 & 22.5 lbs in just 6 weeks! And we had 3 new patients start the program on Monday. These are exciting times!

I recently took “The Dr. Todd Show” at AskDrTodd.com on location to Sullivan Chiro in Chatham (20 minutes north of Virden) where Dr. Gene & Sara also run a successful ChiroThin practice. I picked their brains and they shared some amazing info with me and my vlog viewers!

If you’d rather not have to click over to YouTube, I’ve embedded the full playlist for you right here. Any new videos added after this blog post’s creation will appear here as well, not just the recent Sullivan Chiro interviews:

Many thanks to both Dr. Sullivan & Sara for a plethora of excellent info about their successes with ChiroThin. You two rock!

And here is our brochure on ChiroThin:

ChiroThin Dr Assisted Weight Loss Program brochure – page 1 of 2

ChiroThin Dr Assisted Weight Loss brochure – Page 2

At Austin Family Chiropractic, one of our rules is that we don’t try anything out on you that one of us hasn’t tried out first on each ourselves or a family member. With that being said, my wife Eugena B. Austin, L.M.T / Chiropractic Assistant has gone through the ChiroThin program herself twice. On each occasion she has lost 26 pounds! You go, Gena!!!

Dr. Todd & Eugena Austin from GlutenFreeGena.com at P.F.Chang’s.

Please contact us if we can be of further assistance with the ChiroThin weight loss program. Since Spring has sprung, bathing suit season is just around the corner. This is a 6 week (or 42 day) long program.

Hello all,
I’d like to share my latest stretching exercise video with you. This is a top notch exercise for stretching out the Gluteal muscles of the buttock area. It’s also somewhat helpful if you suffer from a piriformis muscle issue such as a “piriformis spasm”. Your Chiropractor may have even told you that you have a painful condition known as “Piriformis Syndrome” which can send radiating symptoms down one of your lower extremities thus mimicking a lumbar disc herniation. This #GluteStretch could be somewhat helpful for #PiriformisSyndrome too.

We can also perform a variation of this #exercise which is excellent for targeting the calf muscles and stretching the hamstrings to some degree as well.

If you have any questions for me about this exercise, please feel free to either comment here, comment below this video directly on Youtube or email me at draustin@royell.net .

In October 2014 we discovered that we were teaching about a dozen other folks about the amazing Biomat technology including 1 fellow D.C. and 2 Reiki Masters. So in November we threw together our 1st ever Quarterly Central IL Biomat training event at our Virden home. It went incredibly well and there was a lot of energy there!

BiomatGena / Eugena Austin getting on her Biomat BioBliss at the November 2014 Biomat Training Event in Central IL

Back in July 2014 Eugena and I had started a closed Biomat Tips facebook group for our Biomat distributors, our Biomat customers or those with interest in possibly purchasing a Biomat from us someday. Around November 2014 lots of energy started happening there as well. As I type this there are now 70 people in this group including many key contributors. There is a plethora of quality info to be found in our closed group on:
– using Biomats in the home,
– using Biomat therapy in the clinical setting &
– sharing / selling Biomats.

Dr Mike Miller from the New England Pats & Eugena at the Biomat Therapy booth at PFCS ’15 in Indy.

Later in February, I met with fellow Biomat Therapy practitioner, fellow Cold Laser Therapist, fellow Doctor of Chiropractic and Clinical Nutrition guru Dr. Bryan Reid at Your Health Solutions in Maryville, IL to film a couple of episodes of “The Biomat Show” in the 618.

Then I interviewed Dr. Reid about his amazing results using far infrared along with nutritional support, cold laser therapy and low force chiropractic for all sorts of Peripheral Neuropathy in the St. Louis Metro East area:

Solving Tough Peripheral Neuropathy with Dr Reid & Dr. Austin.

Actually, due to increased scrutiny by our U.S. government, The “Solving Peripheral Neuropathy” interview I did with Dr. Reid is now no longer available in the PUBLIC DOMAIN, but only as a PRIVATE video for our PREFERRED CUSTOMERS & CLIENTS.

February also brought us the brand new and improved Purple carrying cases for both Pro Mats and Mini-Mats:

Aren’t they beautiful?!?

Also in 2/2015 The Quantum Energy Pad became a Core Biomat product:

We held our 2nd quarterly Biomat training, once again at our central IL home, in March 2015. It was awesome too! This was the first time having guest presenters. TY to Dr. Bryan Reid of Maryville and Jamie Jones from near Mattoon for both doing an excellent job in that capacity!

Dr Bryan Reid from Nobbe Family Chiropractic of Maryville, IL speaks at the March ’15 Biomat Training in Virden.

Dr Todd Austin demonstrates the BioBliss on an attendee at the 3-7-2015 Biomat Training in Virden, IL.

Then we held our 3rd Quarterly Central Illinois Biomat Training Event in May 2015. It was an incredible event also! Lots of positive energy!!! And a great big thank you to both Iva Jones of Nokomis and Nancy Tripp from the Quad Cities for being our guest presenters. It was great having folks from 3 different states in attendance!!!

Dr. Todd Austin from Biomat Therapy demonstrates a Leg Burrito on Nicole Nichols from St. Louis Biomat at the May 2015 Central IL Training Event.

Far Infrared Thermotherapy solves Chronic Low Back Pain which was unable to helped by the Orthopedic Surgeon, Physical Therapy or Chiropractic care:

At the Effective & Affordable Cold Laser Clinic at Austin Family Chiropractic in Virden, we are truly doing what no one in Central IL has ever even attempted to do before as it pertains to our mission of:“Bringing effective and affordable access to superior healing LIGHT therapy modalities to the masses, both in the clinical setting and in the comforts of one’s home”.

As we look up here in mid-June 2015, we are now training 47 Biomat distributors including a total of 21 other holistic healthcare providers. This is truly #amazing! We now have large clumps of Biomat owners not only in Virden, Springfield, Hillsboro and Nokomis here in central IL, but in the St. Louis metro area, the Quad Cities of Illinois & Iowa, the Memphis, TN area and throughout the state of New Hampshire!

Yes. As it is #COLDandFLU Season, I get the above question quite a lot lately.

One of the main things that we should be doing other than getting our spine adjusted, getting proper rest, eating clean and drinking our Kombucha is to be taking the appropriate supplements and herbs to support our immune system during this time of the year.

So I recently had the honor and privilege of getting together with a whole food nutrition and herb guru from right here in central IL. I interviewed her about 2 supplements (1 an herb, 1 a whole food complex) which support or modulate the immune system. The truth is that you’d be asking for trouble by not taking these 2 supplements this time of year where we are definitely experiencing winter weather in Illinois.

“Hey, Dr. Todd … my feet hurt really bad! My M.D. told me that what I have is called PLANTAR FASCIITIS? I’d never heard of such a condition before. Can you help this at Austin Family Chiropractic?”

Let me start out by saying that I have a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooong history of:
a) suffering from (before I was a Doctor),
b) researching (as a senior Chiropractic student) and now
c) successfully treating (as a Chiropractic Physician & Cold Laser Therapist) “P.F.” or PLANTAR FASCIITIS.

It baffles my mind that although I had over 150 YouTube educational videos online, 65 of which I did in 2013, that I had none on this condition known as P.F., which had been so near and dear to both my feet and my heart for decades. So I got together with my friend and patient Jackie Rakers to remedy the situation. Thank you kindly, Jackie. You did an awesome job with the interview!!!

So here you have it, ladies & gents…. my much awaited video on my story as a former P.F. sufferer and the scoop on the latest advances in alternative PLANTAR FASCIITIS treatment, all of which we utilize to help PF sufferers on a regular basis at AFC in Virden.

Dr Todd Austin interviewing Dr Georgia Davis for an episode of The Dr Todd Show

Hi Michelle,

As you may know, I’m a big fan of using my NutriBullet to make healthy whole food (45% veggies, 45% fruits, 10% nuts or seeds) smoothies called “Nutriblasts”.

Technically JUICING is different than what I’m accustomed to through my nearly 2 decades of using a Vitamix, then a Magic Bullet and now my NutriBullet. So to answer your question, Michelle, I decided to take the traveling DR. TODD SHOW on location to the office of my friend and Holistic Medical Doctor / Neuro-Psychiatrist Georgia Davis, M.D. In this video, Dr. Davis will give you the scoop on JUICING. Dr. Davis practices in Springfield, IL. Enjoy!

P.S. If you’d like to be able to make a smoothie that tastes as good as (or usually even better than) a DQ Blizzard, then here is a bonus video for you. And as you can see here, children love them! And they are GLUTEN FREE. In fact, my better half GlutenFreeGena enjoys them quite often. Enjoy!!!

Eugena Austin, L.M.T. is also known as Diamond Executive Biomat Distributor #BiomatGena of #TeamGena

Dr. Todd’s youngest daughter fills a Biomat burrito!

Dr. Todd purchased his very first Biomat in 7/2013 acting on the advice of one of his healing LIGHT therapy mentors. He loves it, as do his wife Eugena (aka #GlutenFreeGena or #BiomatGena ) and their 3 kids. Dr. Todd invited fellow BIOMAT expert Clint W. to join him at Austin Family Chiropractic to shoot a series of 4 episodes of “The Doctor Todd Show” (aka The Toastmaster Todd Show” and what has since morphed into The Biomat Show ) about questions regarding far infrared (FIR) technology.

Episode 3 is all about far infrared thermotherapy technology to improve #Athletic #Recovery. #DrTodd Austin, team #Chiropractic Physician, team #ColdLaser Therapist & team #Trainer for the #Springfield Foxes since 2011 interviews Clint about his experiences working with FIR alongside Olympic team doctor, Dr. Williams.

Clint W 3 of 3 on AskDrTodd with Dr Todd Austin of Central IL

Episode 3 of 3 has suffered a similar fate as Episode 1 and is now only available as a PRIVATE video for our PREFERRED CUSTOMERS & CLIENTS. If you don’t like it, please complain to your legislators. I remember when this used to be a FREE COUNTRY which included FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Not so much in 2015 and beyond though. Now anything which could be perceived as cutting into either Big Pharma or Big Medicine’s big fat profit margins will be censored!!!

And finally, at 131 degrees Fahrenheit Dr. Todd gives new meaning to the term ‘sitting in the hot seat’ as Clint turns the table and interviews Dr. Austin in Episode 4:

Dr. Todd enjoys a relaxing far infrared thermal treatment.

Dr. Todd’s wife #GlutenFreeGena uses our far infrared thermal mat for the purposes of reducing stress and fatigue on her gluten-free, sugar-free, caffeine-free, soda-free wellness journey. Through 8-24-14, Eugena is crushing it and has lost 71 lbs over the past 12 months by being #GlutenFreeGena. I give her three 30-minute therapeutic massages per week combined with FIR (What can I say other than she deserves every single one of them). And Gena even sleeps on the far infrared mat 4 nights per week as well. Click here to go to our Austin Family Chiropractic Biomat Informational Page.

Yesterday while attending my local Chamber of Commerce meeting, we heard about a business owner in town who has a grown child (although still relatively young compared to me & most of the others at the meeting) who recently suffered a heart attack. Of course our collective thoughts and prayers go out to him for a speedy recovery.

A lady sitting near me said “Oh my God, that’s too young!”. I agreed that it was. She then went on to ask me “Is there anything that us 40 & 50 yr olds at the meeting could be doing to decrease our chance of a HEART ATTACK?” My

For a more in-depth look at heart disease, the book “Heart Disease What Your Doctor Won’t Tell You” is now available at Austin Family Chiropractic in Virden, IL.

reply was a resounding “Absolutely!”

This lady who I like to kid around with because she knows very, very little about health looked at me like I was nuts. I guess she expected me to say that we were all doomed to suffer such a fate.

I went on to explain that just 30 minutes prior to the meeting I had taken all of my AM nutritional supplements, about 14 of them in all. Once again, I got the ‘you must be off your rocker’ glance from her. I told her that by taking 4 of these supplements, I had just decreased my chance of DYING of a HEART ATTACK by a whopping 81% as compared to her. In fact, she takes NO nutritional supplements, and her idea of a balanced breakfast is ‘Fruit Loops’ cereal because she saw a commercial once that stated it was healthy cereal due to being fortified with 17 vitamins & minerals.

I mentioned that diet also had a lot to do with it. If all you eat is stuff out of bags, boxes and cans, survey says – that’s not a very healthy diet.

If you’d like to know about the 4 supplements I’m referring to, all of which we keep in stock at http://www.AFCvirden.com , please respond to this blog post, and I’ll be happy to explain further.

In the meantime …. in the video below, I go into some detail about 3 of the supplements and why cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are a total racket: